GUNS AND GAS
Press Association—
"Post" Special Service.
MODERN WEAPONS USED WHEN COASTGUARDS CLASH WITH RUM RUNNERS TWO CONSIGNMENTS SEIZED
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NEW YORK, Saturday. All the scientific resources of modern warfare were employed to-day in a spectacular clash between coastguards and rum runners off Gloucester when one rum runner was shot dead and one coastguard was felled by poison gas. Four alleged rumrunners' were arrested. A high powered rum-boat, the "Lassghen," was fired on by a coastguard cutter and immediately laid down a smoke-screen of poison gas. Machine gun fire was directed into the cutter, but when capture was imminent owing to the disablement of the "Lassghen," her crew attempted to burn her in order to prevent the seizure of 500 cases of liquor. At Kingston (Mass.) efforts by coastguards to secure several loads of liquor which its guards had dumped into the Jones River, resulted in volleys of gun-fire from ambushed rum-runners. The coastguards dived into the river and escaped unhurt. Later, they returned and secured 290 eases of liquor.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 13, 7 September 1931, Page 3
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